Genesis 11:10

The Descendants of Shem

10 These are the generations of Shem. When Shem {was one hundred years old}, he fathered Arphaxad, two years after the flood.

Genesis 11:10 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 11:10

These are the generations of Shem
Or a genealogy of the posterity of Shem; not of all of them, only of those of the line which led to Abraham, by which might appear the true line in which the Messiah from Adam through Abraham sprung:

Shem was one hundred years old, and begat Arphexad two years after
the flood;
by which it is pretty plain that he was younger than Japheth; (See Gill on Genesis 10:21) of Arphaxad his son, (See Gill on Genesis 10:22).

Genesis 11:10 In-Context

8 So Yahweh scattered them from there over the face of the whole earth, and they stopped building the city.

9 Therefore its name was called Babel, for there Yahweh confused the language of the whole earth, and there Yahweh scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

10 These are the generations of Shem. When Shem {was one hundred years old}, he fathered Arphaxad, two years after the flood.

11 And Shem lived five hundred years after he fathered Arphaxad, and he fathered [other] sons and daughters.

12 When Arphaxad had lived thirty-five years, he fathered Shelah.

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "family records"
• [b]. Literally "the son of one hundred years"